2022 in Bulgaria (Sofia)
(land #21) - my first "Eastern Bloc" country!
2022-10-01 23:59 // updated 2026-03-23 11:05
October 1, 2022 : took an overnight flight from Toronto (YYZ) to Warsaw, Poland, and then to Sofia, Bulgaria (SOF) to meet my 10-day sightseeing group around the Balkans:
not much time spent here at the start of the trip:
- a mere meeting with the tour group at Hotel Vega
- the ride would begin towards Serbia the next morning
- the trip would end after 10 days back in Sofia, where some of us would see Downtown Sofia!
trip markers
- 21st "country"
- 13th "European country"
- 11th "mainland European country"
- 1st time in southeastern Europe
- 1st time "in a country whose official language was written in the Cyrillic alphabet"
- Bulgaria is spelled ΠΡΠ»Π³Π°ΡΠΈΡ in Bulgarian!
- 2nd Slavic-speaking country
- after Poland